So today, we went to Comic Con.
Leave house: 10:30am.
Get downtown: 11:10am.
Find parking spot: 12:20pm. $5 (amazingly, most of the close ones were $20, but they were full. We had to park on the other side of Petco Park).
Make it to the convention center: 12:35pm. $20 by pedicab — no way the kids were willing to walk that in the heat.
Entrance for me and the kids: $25. (And a very nice ComicCon employee let us cut the line when he saw I had two kids in tow).
This time, there’s a new version to download!
Last time, I talked about how there were a few things that had caught my imagination: dynamic music based on how you were flying the bird, and the idea of adding verticality into the flight model, so you could zoom in and out. This latter one, I concluded, should be done before I put in any obstacles or challenges, because it would dictate what sort of challenges I could present. I also had planned to add the wind.
I think I have mentioned before my affection for Blokus, a wonderful board game about placing pieces on a grid, but they are only allowed to touch at the corners.
Well, now Blokus Trigon is out, and the pieces are built out of triangles instead of squares.
Article centered on China, with more of the usual figures and a good glimpse into the culture of it there.
It’s been an ill-kept secret, but now it’s official that Cartoon Network will have an MMO.
Yet another in the march of the major media licenses. Interestingly, this one looks to be following the free play model, with microtransactions. It will be interesting to see how kids + microtransactions mixes in the Western market.
